Hannah Hopewell (Pākehā) is the Richard Reich Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State University. Her teaching and research investigates ways to identify and destabilize hegemonic landscape literacies towards reckoning with the complex legacy of landscape in human-ecological relationships in settler-colonial contexts. Hannah has over 20 years of practice experience, most recently with TOA Architects where her landscape-led urbanism focus was honed in a kaupapa Māori context, and has taught at Victoria University of Wellington and Cornell University in New York. In 2019 she completed a practice-led doctorate with a variant of site-writing that complicated literacies of the urban landscape present. Hannah has contributed to Architecture NZ, Freerange, Kerb Journal, Interstices: Journal of Architecture and Related Arts, Medium, Landscape Review, JOLA, and exhibited in the 5th Auckland Triennial, Te Kura Waihanga Window Gallery, and Pōnēke City Light Boxes. Forthcoming publications in 2025 include “Landscape collective entanglements and the landscapes-to-come in Aotearoa New Zealand”, in Collective Landscape Futures, edited by A. Athique and Ed Wall, and the guest editorship for a Special Issue of Settler Colonial Studies,”Reckoning with Settler Colonial Cities”.
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